ASC Accreditation, Licensure & Medicare Certification

Information & Quality Healthcare, a not-for-profit corporation serving as the federally designated quality improvement organization for Mississippi, provides a free, downloadable poster to remind staff when to turn a patient to help prevent the development of pressure ulcers.

The following article is an example of an IQI Insights — a brief quarterly newsletter published by the AAAHC Institute for Quality Improvement (AAAHC Institute). The article is copyrighted and reprinted here with the express permission of the AAAHC Institute.…

Phenelle Segal, RN CIC, is president of Infection Control Consulting Services based in Blue Bell, Pa.   Q: Do you place soiled briefs of a Clostridium Difficile patient in a red bag or in plain trash?   Phenelle Segal: Red…

Delaware's Division of Public Health has published proposed revisions to the regulations governing the state's freestanding surgical centers, according to a Dover Post report and the public notice of the proposed revisions.

Michon Villanueva is assistant director, accreditation services, for the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care. Q: We are currently in the process of credentialing our new ambulatory surgery center. My providers are questioning whether or not, on days that anesthesia…

Here are the 10 most-read reports from Becker's Operating Room Clinical Quality & Infection Control in 2011. Note: Clicking a story link will open the report in a new tab.

The Joint Commission has published then 2012 edition of its survey activity guide.

The following article was originally published in Preventing Infection in Ambulatory Care, the quarterly e-publication from the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC). To learn more about receiving this resource and joining APIC, visit www.apic.org/ambulatorynewsletter. To learn…

Jan Davidson, MSN, RN, AORN manager of ambulatory products for AORN, will represent AORN on the AAAHC board following the accreditor's approval of AORN for full membership in the AAAHC, according to an AORN news release.

The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses has announced it has published the results for its 2011 annual salary survey of perioperative nurses, according to a news release from AORN.